Earthquake — Ecuador: Tungurahua

When

5 Aug 1949

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.5

Where

Ecuador

Coordinates

1.24° S, 78.31° W

Deaths

6000

Damage musd

7.5

Depth km

60

Earthquake in Ecuador

A magnitude 6.4 Ms earthquake struck Ecuador's Tungurahua Province southeast of its capital Ambato and killed 5,050 people on August 5, 1949. The nearby villages of Guano, Patate, Pelileo, and Pillaro were destroyed, and the city of Ambato suffered heavy damage. The earthquake flattened buildings and subsequent landslides caused damage throughout the Tungurahua, Chimborazo, and Cotopaxi Provinces.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In Ecuador, the 6.8 Ambato earthquake kills more than 5,000, and destroys a number of villages”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,8 provoque à Ambato en Équateur”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “землетрясение в городе Амбато (Эквадор) унесло жизни более 5 тысяч человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Ambato (Ecuador) se registra un violento terremoto de 6,4 que deja más de 5000 fallecidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page